The clause was a typical example of an obligation not to do.
Royal Mail, for example, has an obligation to deliver to all postcodes in the UK, but there is no such thing in the private sector and you may find some companies refuse to deliver to remote addresses.
Some moral obligations are "relational," "directional," or "bipolar" in structure: in promising you to act in a certain way, for example, I incur an obligation to you to so act and you acquire a corresponding claim or right against me that I so act.
Kelsen, a fierce opponent of natural-law theories, identified the central problem of the philosophy of law as how to explain the normative force of law i.e., law's claim to rightfully tell people what they ought to do (such that, for example, they have an obligation of obedience to the law).
At other times, the value veers toward the universal, for example, journalists have an obligation to pursue the truth, fairly and fearlessly.
A plutocracy has nothing to do with any natural hierarchy, such as, for example, parents having an obligation to serve basic needs of their children up to a certain age, nor to do with any other situation in which a dependency exists by nature instead of being legally imposed.
For example, I can fulfill an obligation of justice even if I do not act from natural inclination, when I grudgingly repay a steep loan, for instance; and so it seems I can have obligations of justice.
There were two statements for each principle, each expressing the concept in a slightly different way with essentially the same meaning - for example: Beneficence - An obligation to convey benefits and to help others to further their legitimate interests (i.e. "One has a moral obligation to help other people").
Equally, it would like ministers and officials to be more creative about competition rules: for example, a community-benefit obligation in major building contracts could advantage locally produced steel while remaining within the rules.
Let me give you an example: a collateralized debt obligation squared.
